Mitigating Methane Slip: A Pathway towards a Greener Future

METHANE SLIP CH₄ slip is a significant contributor to greenhouse emissions. Europe's Sustainable Development Goals strike many as distant, particularly on the environmental side. However, the new resolvetoward mitigating slip - including close monitoring, equipment enhancement and greater use ofbiogas - are the most promising avenues toward SDG fulfillment.

Leaders of the European Union, on the whole,are satisfied with the progress toward the social and economic aims among their Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Lessclear, however, is how well they are advancing toward improvements in climateand land use. Perhaps one of the greatest obstacles in the fight against greenhouse gases is the matter of methane slip. This term refers to the escape of methane (CH₄)that is intended for combustion as energy. Accidentally released into the atmosphere during storage, transport or usage, CH₄ is --among greenhouse gases -- the second ranking contributor to global warming. In fact, the U.S. National Aeronautics and SpaceAdministration (NASA) estimates that 20-30percent of warming since the 18th century finds its origins in methane emissions.